Cemetery Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1988. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Cemetery Chapel
- WRENN ID
- silver-loggia-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Halifax MP: Kate Dearden (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1988
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Cemetery Chapel, Cemetery Lane
- OS grid reference
- SE 051 236
- Coordinates
- 53.70926, -1.92285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cemetery Chapel, located on Cemetery Lane in Sowerby Bridge, is a Grade II listed building dating from the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed of coursed dressed stone and features a roof covered with large slates and a lead cupola. The chapel has a cruciform plan, with a north porch and a central fleche. Designed in the Gothic style, it includes rectilinear tracery and off-set diagonal buttresses.
The porch features a shouldered-arched double door with decorative ironwork and an oculus above, all set within a pointed-arched surround. Above the porch, the gable has a spherical triangle window with a head-stopped hoodmould. The west and east gables each have a three-light window with a head-stopped hoodmould, while the south gable boasts a large circular window with star-shaped cusped tracery and a head-stopped hoodmould.
Additional architectural details include kneelers, ashlar copings, and gable finials throughout the structure. The south gable is topped with an octagonal chimney. The central octagonal fleche has glazed, traceried sides and rises as a broached, ribbed spire, complete with lucarnes and a weathervane. This chapel served as the non-conformist chapel, with a similar Anglican chapel previously located to the northwest, as indicated on the 1919 Ordnance Survey Map.
Local climate
Cemetery Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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